The book ‘Metamorphoses of Cities’ is an anthology of poems from the complete poetic works of Michalis Pieris.
A common theme runs through the selection of poems: the experiential and literary connection with various cities around the world, where the poet lived for a time or simply visited. Alongside the ‘city’ poems the selection also includes several poems on related themes, such as wandering, migration, exile, the journey of acclimatisation to a foreign land, as well as the return (real, dreamlike or poetic) to one’s homeland.
The book has already been translated into Russian, French and Italian.
- Pages: 368
- ISBN: 978-960-8399-84-6
- Publication: 2010
- Dimensions: 13 x 20
- Categories: Literature, Books, Poetry
Michalis Pieris
Michalis Pieris was born in 1952 in Eftagonia, Cyprus. He studied literature and theatre in Thessaloniki and Sydney and has published several literary and critical studies. He has published three collections of poetry in the publishing series of the journal Planodion and a theatrical adaptation of Leontios Machairas’s medieval Chronicle of Cyprus, which he taught at the University of Cyprus. He has published (under the literary pseudonym Michalis Eftagonitis) poems and short stories in Cypriot magazines. His poetry has been translated into English, Italian, Catalan, Russian and Turkish and has received awards in countries abroad. He has lived for extended periods in Limassol, Thessaloniki, Sydney, Athens, Rethymno and Melbourne, and has travelled to many countries. Since 1993, he has lived permanently in Nicosia, teaching poetry and theatre at the University of Cyprus.
